Album Review: Ruthie Collins’ ‘Cold Comfort’
Maxim Mower finds much to praise in a maturely sombre new country music star
Review: Four Tet’s ‘Sixteen Oceans’
Fred Waine praises Kieran Hebden's latest offering for its evocation of natural themes
In Conversation: Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds
A chat with Enter Shikari's frontman ahead of the release of their highly-anticipated sixth studio album, 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'
Review: Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG
In December 2017, Bad Bunny performed just one block from where I was living at the time in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I didn’t know who...
Review: ‘The Slow Rush’, Tame Impala
At last, after a five-year wait, we’ve finally got a new album from Tame Impala. The Australian one-man band have just released their...
Tegan & Sara’s ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You’: a Queer Coming of Age
When Tegan and Sara Quin signed with Neil Young’s Vapor Records in 1999, they were a novelty on the male-dominated indie scene. The identical...
Marika Hackman and queer sexuality in music
Bolshy, brazen and unapologetically sexual – in Oxford, the first group of people to spring to mind from this description is likely to be...
Review: Wire’s ‘Mind Hive’
Wire are a band that don’t like nostalgia, unlike most mainstream cultural figures. So much so, that they have been known to take...
Review: Frank Turner’s ‘Love, Ire & Song’
Frank Turner is an interesting character. Somehow famous enough to play Wembley and the Olympic opening ceremony, but not quite famous enough that...
Review: Fine Line – Harry Styles
Two years since his solo debut, Harry Styles is back with his second album, Fine Line. Styles’ self-titled album in 2017 had to fight...
Review: Kanye West – ‘Jesus is King’
It’s
that time of the year again when Kanye West, armed with another batch of
outrageous quotes (“God is using me to show off”) and the...
Review: City and Colour – ‘A Pill for Loneliness’
Dallas Green, the man behind City and Colour, can quite fairly be called an old hand now, having been cracking out albums for 15...
Review: Lover by Taylor Swift
Jess Curry looks at why Taylor Swift's latest record represents a strong return to form
Review: ANIMA by Thom Yorke
A glance at Yorke's finest solo album to date
